Murrieta is considering a measure on Tuesday, as is Newport Beach

Voters in Murrieta will decide on Tuesday whether to switch off red-light cameras at three intersections in that Riverside County city.

Measure N, which recently survived a court challenge, would end the ticketing program and ban it in the future. The campaign has been waged almost single-handedly by resident Diana Serafin.

She has been hit in a broadside accident by a red-light runner, so she knows the dangers. But she said the cameras are totalitarian in nature, and distracting to drivers.

Serafin favors police officer time being used for a different purpose than reviewing camera footage, and believes locals have better ways to spend the $490 fine money.

Two Murrieta City Council members, Rick Gibbs and Alan Long, said broadside collisions are down at camera-outfitted intersections. And they say that 72 percent of drivers ticketed do not live in Murrieta.

Of the 18 ballot measures seeking to ban red light cameras over the last four years nationwide, only one didn’t pass — in East Cleveland, Ohio, where the police chief threatened officer layoffs. Voters in Anaheim, Cincinnati, Albuquerque, and Houston passed bans.

In addition to Murrieta, there are bans on Tuesday’s ballot in Newport Beach; League City, Texas; and Monroe, Wash.

Studies by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety have repeatedly found red light cameras have reduced accidents, and the institute has poked holes in reports that have concluded otherwise. In 2011, one of its studies found the 14 biggest cities with the cameras saw an overall decrease in fatal red light-running accidents.

San Diego officials are wrapping up a bid process to find a vendor to renew its current red light camera contract, which expires Jan. 30. They are expected to present a report to the City Council soon, although both candidates to replace Mayor Jerry Sanders say they oppose the program.